Post * AN96l — Curious Curator

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TIL that people in the 1940s would actually sit in their car trunk to have a beer

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d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.

1xAW TIL that the Chicago Cubs were the first baseball team to win back-to-back World Series; and haven’t won since

m1X9M TIL about Operation Artichoke. A 1954 CIA plan to make an unwitting individual attempt to assassinate American public official, and then be taken into custody and “disposed of”.

160V TIL that Su Hui, a fourth century Chinese poet, wrote a poem in the form of a twenty-nine by twenty-nine character grid. Each line can be read forward or backwards, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This arrangement allows for 2,848 different readings.

W74dN TIL from 1970 to 1994, there was a gift dropping operation for North Sentinel island. Coconuts, buckets, sweet potatoes, Yorkshire hog, red linen, rubber balls, sickles, choppers, bead necklaces and citrus saplings were among the gifts dropped to the island